Can you even see where the path goes at this point? Well, the next few yards were obvious enough (just out of shot on the right) and from there, we could see the next few yards after that okay. The path actually goes along the grassy, sloping ledge two thirds of the way up the picture, and rounds the spur just where you can see a narrow flat bit just by the cliff at the top edge of the slope.
This path has almost certainly fallen into disuse since the tunnel was opened. I doubt if it’s possible – or safe – to find it now. It had been in use for a thousand years. I’d quite like to go back and take a look.
Faroes, 1983
Somebody once asked me, “What sort of sound does that weird O with the line through it make?”
I replied,
“I don’t know how to describe sounds – if there was a word in English with the right sound, I could tell you, but there isn’t, really. The nearest is the ER in nervous (as long as you don’t roll that R like a Scot would), but it’s not exact.
“But the double L isn’t pronounced like a double L in English, either – it’s more like a Welsh double L, but that isn’t quite right either. A cockney glottal stop followed by an L is close. Then you have to remember that ‘-anes’ is pronounced ‘ah ness’.
“And the not forgetting that I only picked up a bit of Faroese twenty years ago, and have largely forgotten it. So best to ask an actual Faroese person!”
It’s over thirty years ago now, of course, but it was twenty years ago when I wrote that.
©Clive K Semmens 1983